Del Sol Featured Composer-
Keyla Orozco (b. 1969)

Keyla Orozco studied piano and music theory in Santiago de Cuba and later in Havana at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) with Ileana Bautista. After that she studied composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana with Harold Gramatges (1988-93). She continued her composition studies as a post-graduate student in The Netherlands with Theo Loevendie at the Royal conservatory in The Hague and Amsterdam Conservatory (1995-98).

Orozco has won several awards and prizes, including a Guggenheim Latin American & Caribbean fellowship Award in New York (2000), the Cintas Fellowship for creative arts, awarded by the Institute of International Education in New York (2003) and Two prizes from the International composition competition René Amengual in Santiago de Chile (1994).

She has received numerous commissions from organizations and ensembles in Holland like: the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Nederlands Fluitorkest, Asko ensemble, VPRO television, Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst, De Ereprijs, Nieuw Ensemble, Amsterdam fonds voor de Kunst and others. Her works has been performed in Festivals and events around the world including Cuba, the Netherlands, USA, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Austria, Aruba, Venezuela and others. Some of her pieces are published by Donemus (publisher of muziekgroup Nederland), Amsterdam, and six works have been released on cd's in Holland, Mexico and Aruba, including Extremes (1998) and Perpetuumm (1999) by Combustion Chamber ensemble and The Nieuw ensemble, both conducted by Rutger van leyden (Ned.). Besides composing, Orozco has been since her studying years an active organizer of music projects to promote contemporary music in Cuba and The Netherlands. See event Q-ba Música 2004 at www.perpetuumm.com. In 2002 Orozco became an assistant of Theo Loevendie in Composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.